Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Suman Roberson It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Sam smith (sam_smithreview) This could be argued to be one of Van Damme's best film. Not only for his amazing fight scenes, but also for his acting ability along side himself. Not writing here as biased fan, but seeing this film, I shockingly had to admit that Van Damme was far better actor then what people gave him credit for. Story of the film is very cliché of most 90's films. twins get separated at birth and one becomes a criminal while the other one becomes a goody boy. They both have to team up together to protect their family money and name. Which one or both didn't really care for before.Acting in the film, was fairly good, with few exceptions. But people going to see this film, knew that this wasn't going to be the competition for Dances with a wolf or Jeremy Irons performance in Reversal of Fortune. The expectations was that this was going to be enjoyable film with tons of action and the possibility of having Van Damme fight Van Damme in an amazing fight scene. Which the film succeeded in. Van Damme was very clear as two different brothers, who are completely different in all traits. Van Damme managed to create and contain certain ticks, tricks and mannerisms for each one, clear sign of a good actor. Not to mention all of the really cool fight scenes we got to see was a benefit too!!so if you are bored at home and have nothing to do, feel free to give this film a go, if you like 80's and 90's action type of movies, you will love this.

Scott LeBrun The Muscles from Brussels takes a co-producer and co-writer credit on this routinely plotted but agreeable action picture. Van Damme plays twin boys, who were orphaned in the 1960s by thugs representing some greedy white collar criminals. One of them, Chad, ended up in L. A. where he got to live a fairly soft life. Alex, on the other hand, remained in Hong Kong where he became a street smart smuggler. 25 years later, their "uncle" Frank (Geoffrey Lewis) locates Alex and reunites the boys so they can have a classic bit of revenge - and reclaim what's theirs in the bargain.All of the action is watchable if never truly inspired. There's a good deal of hard hitting violence (the naive Chad takes his lumps before the story is over), and plenty of effective squib action - not to mention a hearty helping of explosions. The exotic Hong Kong setting certainly helps a lot, as well. One sequence is particularly striking, and you can see bits of that in the trailer. And there's a fairly satisfying confrontation between Van Damme and martial arts icon Bolo Yeung, who plays Moon, a goon who ends up with a fake eye and a nasty scar due to Franks' intervention back in the 60s.There's a certain degree of entertainment in watching Van Damme play two distinctly different characters. Thanks to some reasonably effective movie trickery - body doubles, special effects, and the like - we get to see the twins interacting regularly. Philip Chan, as crime kingpin Raymond Zhang, and Alan Scarfe, as the nefarious Nigel Griffith, are decent action movie baddies in the classic tradition. Both the blonde Alonna Shaw (as Alex's girlfriend Danielle) and the athletic brunette Corinna Everson (as henchwoman Kara) add much sex appeal. The eternally solid and reliable Lewis is a tremendous asset to the story, lending it an appropriate amount of respectability."Double Impact" may not be memorable in the end, but it sure provides a nice diversion for the better part of two hours.Seven out of 10.

Fluke_Skywalker Believe it or not, there was a time when two Jean Claude Van Dammes were thought to be better than one. JCVD actually does a nice job here playing twins who are total opposites, managing to make each one distinct so that pretty soon you view them as two separate characters and not just JCVD and JCVD with slicked back hair. The rest of the cast fall in around JCVD well enough. Geoffrey Lewis classes things up as the mentor, and Bolo Yeung re-teams with Van Damme to create another menacing baddie.Logic and common sense are in short supply, but there's plenty of high kicking hijinks to ensure you don't notice, or at least don't care.

ebiros2 Compared to the other JCVD Hong Kong classic the "Knock Off" this movie is of lot lower quality although it's still a good movie. But when this movie was made, it was an intrepid attempt to mix Hong Kong and western production into one (although there was China O'Brien that preceded this in this area).JCVD was at the top of his game around this point. But he never succeeded breaking into big budget movies, although he was a bankable star (this movie grossed 80M). It took Jackie Chan 30 years to do it, so maybe we shouldn't be so hard on JC.Interestingly, Ms Olympia Cori Everson makes a guest appearance as the female heavy for the gangs. She was somewhat under utilized, but so were many of the supporting casts. I'm not sure what's not working, but the supporting casts characters lack - well, characters.The movie could also have capitalized more on the (sometimes) beautiful landscape of Hong Kong. But out of all JCVD's movies, this is still one of the better ones made.